Current platinum group metal (PGM)-free carbon nanocomposite catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in acidic electrolyte often suffer from rapid degradation associated with carbon corrosion due to the use of ...

Mundanity exists within our daily lives, and one of the most prominent places where this occurs is within our dwellings. Our living spaces suggest to us where and how we go about life, and, as dwellers, our adherence to ...

In this thesis, we develop an online collision detection/avoidance approach for multi-rotor (autonomous) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). One-on-one collision detection is performed by a UAV based on the observation of its ...

The ubiquitous hashtag has disruptively transformed how news stories are reported and shared across social media networks. Often, such text streams are massively multilingual with 50 different languages on an average and ...

Medium spiny neurons account for over 90% of all neurons in the striatum and are classified as either direct (dMSNs) or indirect (iMSN) projecting to the substantia nigra. Direct MSNs can be identified based on the expression ...

“A Different Kind of Stranger: Foreign Bodies, Hybrids, and the Cultural Politics of Sex Offense,” explores how discourses of race, sexuality, gender and empire have structured the epistemological frameworks of sex offense ...

Biofabrication enables fantastic applications, such as 3D cell culture, disease modeling and drug screening. The current thesis describes the development ofa new microfabricated device, focusing on the role of the physical ...

Biofabrication enables fantastic applications, such as 3D cell culture, disease modeling and drug screening. The current thesis describes the development ofa new microfabricated device, focusing on the role of the physical ...

Game theory is a tool used to study the strategic interactions among designers and clients, which has a potential to improve the process. Decision making has not been exhaustively studied in architectural design, but it ...

This dissertation is a grammar of Yeri, an endangered Torricelli language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The language is still spoken, to at least some degree, by approximately 100–150 speakers, most of whom ...

Limited research exists examining geographic disparities in postpartum depression (PPD) particularly from a social work perspective. This dissertation research sought to address current gaps and limitations in the empirical ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of mediation by a reflective framework, video, and a literacy coach and the impact of this mediation on the reflective stance of secondary level teachers of ELLs. Analysis ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of mediation by a reflective framework, video, and a literacy coach and the impact of this mediation on the reflective stance of secondary level teachers of ELLs. Analysis ...

Cell boundary detection is a very important task in bioinformatics. It is the basis of plenty of future work towards cell analysis. The connection parts of different cells are call adherens junctions. Recent work on detecting ...

Micromixing is an important part in microfluidics for both multicomponent analytical systems and microreaction technology. The objective of this thesis is to develop a simple and portable micromixing device based on capillary ...

Micromixing is an important part in microfluidics for both multicomponent analytical systems and microreaction technology. The objective of this thesis is to develop a simple and portable micromixing device based on capillary ...

Micromixing is an important part in microfluidics for both multicomponent analytical systems and microreaction technology. The objective of this thesis is to develop a simple and portable micromixing device based on capillary ...

Dynamic substructuring (DS), also known as hybrid simulation, is an experimental method used to study the dynamic behavior of complex engineering systems. Models are created that consists of two parts actively interacting ...